Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Book Review: Milan Vohra's Tick-Tock We're 30!

‘Interesting, isn’t it, how someone is always utterly attractive to someone else? For every male tree frog, there is a female tree frog whose dry skin and warts and bulging eyes are the most divine. and to you, Lara Bagai, a karela is a thing of beauty,’ Nishad comments.

So he remembers I love karela. So what?

‘I take it your interest in frogs is purely academic?’ I snigger.

‘I promise you I am not in danger of being madly besotted by one anytime soon,’ he half-smiles.

Honestly, I am not too much into
reviewing the books. The only reason I agreed for this one is because I could
get a chance to read one...more so, a love story that I am ridiculously addicted to and
because it’s a Milan Vohra book, the Indianised
version of Mills & Boon!

The book takes you through a very
interesting storyline where a bunch of friends decides to celebrate their ‘turning
30’ as they had once decided to do so whenever the last one hits the mark. So,
as Lara Bagai is the youngest one and the last to do so, it’s time for the celebration
through a union they plan. Like Sita names it, the OTWT,' Oh Teri, We're
Thirty!' affair.

The gathering has Lara cheerful
and all prepped up. But there's an added deal that, unluckily, concurs with
this one. The one that Lara and Nishad had made one evening agreeing to marry
each other if they were both single and available by the time they both turned
thirty. Lara is pretty sure that this pact was made when she was wasted.

As Lara was totally smitten by
Ranndeep, her male biker boyfriend, the last thing she could ever think was the
possibility of the deal turning into reality. But what the heck! She is soon turning
thirty and still single as Ranndeep turned out to be a douchebag and moreover,
Nishad hasn’t forgotten about the pact.

Then comes Perzaan, the Turkish
bartender and Lara’s fake boyfriend for a week until the SN gang is in the
house. Does she pull through this or the smart Nishad sees anything through
this pretence? Well, this is not the only story playing hard at the pajama-wala
uncle’s house and there are few others playing out, too. Old flames are wafted
and relighted, odd couplings materialize, sensual angles get definite, and
sexual dysfunctions get amended! Full of mischiefs and excitement, food carousels
and journeys down memory lane, tricks and fights, Tick-tock, We're 30 ensues at
an incredibly curt speed.

There is sufficient melodrama in these 400-odd pages. The
characters are superbly outlined ---from the recurrently constipated Thin Rita
to pleased eye, Sai. Odds are that you'll have a pictorial silhouette of each
one of them in your cognizance while analysing this book. Great on comedy and dialect
idioms, you will somehow not complaint the fact that the book is a bit too extended.
In spite of everything, you'd still need to see who each one will end up with
and in what way. It will also make you wonder how such a dissimilar set of charismas
can be so unified too.

Milan Vohra inscribes modestly
and for India's first Mills and Boon novelist, her style is amazingly without overemotional
slush and sugary romanticism, although assumed the topic, it could so effortlessly
have gone down that street.

On the downside, she could have cut down on certain
explanations reducing the number of pages! In all, a good bed-side read!

(This book review is a part of the Promotion conducted by Women's Web, a leading online publication for today's women)

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